(CNN) On Friday morning at 8 a.m., Vice President Mike Pence will receive the Covid-19 vaccine, becoming, in the process, the highest-profile politician in the country to do so. For Pence, it will be that rarest of things over these past four years: A moment in which he eclipses, however briefly, President Donald Trump. (Trump isn't receiving the vaccination yet , because he has already had Covid-19.) Pence, who has built his career on being a steady and reliable conservative, has struggled to find ways to distinguish himself in any meaningful way over Trump's term because, well, Trump is Trump. The vice president has, largely, avoided being dragged into Trump's fantasy world in which he won the election but was somehow cheated out of it.

Source: CNN December 17, 2020 23:32 UTC